I sometimes reread stuff I wrote when people leave a kudos or a comment on it and then can't believe that I've had some words in my active word set in the day. 😄
Do y'all not reread your own fics? Like I reread shit I wrote all the time. Cause I wrote that shit for me.
I think when we say we write for ourselves, it really means, we wrote things without the worry of "Is this a popular trope, will this go viral, is it trendy"
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
My fic writing hot take is that everyone is asking the wrong question when it comes to characterization. "Would he say that?" is only part of it. What you really should be asking is, "What would happen to make him say that?" There lies the real joy of writing fanfiction
Le vieux du quartier m’a dit : « N’oublie pas que la boussole a été inventée avant l’horloge parce que la direction est plus importante que le temps. »
@ImogenLeewriter My step sister studies uni. She had to write an essay. She despises AI and she has sworn to never use it. So she wrote it and sent it. The lecturer wrote to her that she has to admit that she used AI. She replied that she didn't. He said he won't give her the credits.
@SilverStuff50 At Waldorf schools, they usually don't have mirrors. When I found out, I thought it was dumb. But it genuinely makes kids not concentrate on the outside - and it is such a great thing, I love it.